Champion Quotes

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali

Life, Live, Training

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Pain, Someone, Through

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

Sacrifice, Team, Individual

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

Life, Time, Great

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Mitt Romney

Business, Hurt, Job

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm

Else, Vision, Looking

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Winning, Motivation, Needs

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
Usain Bolt

Working, Focused

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
Novak Djokovic

Fight, Nothing, Big

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King

Winning, Else, Afraid

A true champion can adapt to anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Attitude, Winning, Win

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, War, Cannot

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Jerry Saltz

Mistake, Otherwise, Huge

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Jose Mourinho

Special, Call, Please

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.
Hugh Jackman

Father, Down, Trying

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
Tiger Woods

Win, Measured, Remembered

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
Chris Evert

A true champion will fight through anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

True, Fight, Through

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

Defend, Absurdity

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Chuck Norris

Time, Made, Become

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
Steve Nash

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Hope, Human, Rights

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Fight, Justice

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Fight, Justice

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King

Important, Towards

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Donald Cargill

Fool, Die, Though

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Major Taylor

Success, Modesty, Typical

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov

Strong, Human, Simply

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